January, 2012
Intro to GIS
Jan. 29, 2012—I’ve read and reread Yuan’s chapter “Mapping Text” and studied the figures – and yet it remains so abstract to me. I hope that our hands-on activity in class will give me the knowledge I need to understand what exactly GIS is! In reading, I realized that my primary definitions of map, text, value, and...
Another Introduction!
Jan. 25, 2012—Hello! My name is April Stevens and I am a third year graduate student in the French Department at Vanderbilt University. I am currently embarking on the first stages of preparing to write a disseration. My research focuses on the circulation of information between France and the New World during the 18th century (prior to...
Another Grad student !
Jan. 24, 2012—Hello, My name is Roxane Pajoul. I am a first year graduate student in the French Departement. I have always been interested in feminism, literature and I love teaching. One day I hope to be able to combine the three of them to have an ideal job — I am allowed to dream, right? My...
Introduction
Jan. 24, 2012—My name is Annette Quarcoopome and I am currently a second-year graduate student in the French program at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses largely on questions of history and memory in Antillean literature. My most recent project focuses on literary texts and legal documents in the context of the French and Haitian revolutions, and the...
A brief introduction
Jan. 23, 2012—Hello! I’m a third-year graduate student in the French and Italian Department at Vanderbilt. I’m currently working on French Linguistics and the development of opera in 17th-Century France. I have several popular keywords so far: Lully, Grimarest, Bacilly, airs, Lambert, Mazarin, Colbert, and La Fronde. My research so far has revealed the various routes that...
Hello, online community!
Jan. 23, 2012—My name is Katie Gandy, and I am in my fourth semester of graduate work within the Department of French at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN. Up to this point, the focus of my studies has been literature (especially French, but also English); but recently my interest has turned more towards Second Language Acquisition. I...
iBooks Textbooks
Jan. 20, 2012—As though in (some kind of) response to Cory’s post on HASTAC, apple launched yesterday iBooks Textbooks, basically interactive textbooks that one may purchase and use on their ipad. I find the interactive aspect of this idea potentially intriguing. I’m not sure to what extent students think of textbooks as something to interact with. Workbooks...
Still pondering the Digital Humanities…
Jan. 18, 2012—The day after our first class, last Thursday, I had lunch with a friend and colleague from the History Department where we were talking about our work for the new semester. I told her that I was taking this Digital Humanities class, and her question was of course: What exactly is the Digital Humanities? As...
In addition to Wikipedia’s blackout …
Jan. 18, 2012—Google Homepage seems to be doing something similar with a large black box placed over the logo. Click on the black box, and it leads you to the following website, named “End Piracy, Not Liberty”: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ There is even a form on this page to send an anti-online censorship message directly to Congress! Also, the following...
Good to know…
Jan. 17, 2012—I just read the short article entitled, “Whatever made you think it was your data anyway?” (Thanks, Lyn!) I appreciate Steven Poole’s matter-of-fact tone, and I think his article will inspire me in two main ways: (1) to become more aware of the roles I play as an internet user, and (2) to become more...